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Julian Anderson's Fantasias Premieres November 19 at The Cleveland Orchestra

Nov. 03, 2009

The Cleveland Orchestra, led by Jonathan Nott, performs the world premiere of Julian Anderson's Fantasias on November 19, a work they commissioned with support from the Young Composers Endowment Fund established by Jan R. and Daniel R. Lewis. Drawing on the tradition of the orchestral fantasia, Anderson re-imagines and re-interprets musical fantasy in his own compositional idiom. He writes:

The tradition of the fantasia in Western music is that of caprice and deliberate willfulness on the surface of the music, as in the wonderful keyboard Fantasias of C.P.E. Bach, with an underlying harmonic coherence holding the whole together. In this work I have adopted both features. Caprice is certainly evident in many of these movements, though some - like the slow third - hold back their sharp contrast until the end, whilst others - like the fourth - present contrasts up front.

For more information on Julian Anderson, please view his composer profile at www.fabermusic.com.

Details on The Cleveland Orchestra's performance can be found at www.clevelandorchestra.com.

Julian Anderson
Fantasias (2009)
for orchestra
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23'

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